Abstract:
An electrophotographic printer including: a photosensitive belt moving along a circular path and supported by a plurality of rollers; a main corona device for increasing an electrical charge potential on a surface of the photosensitive belt to a predetermined level for development; first, second, third and fourth laser scanning units for forming an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive belt by color; first, second, third and fourth developing units for individually developing the electrostatic latent image using first, second, third and fourth developing solutions of different colors; a drying roller pressing the photosensitive belt for removing carrier from the developing solutions developed on the photosensitive belt, the drying roller being frictionally charged positively through contact with the photosensitive belt; an eraser for removing an electrostatic charge remaining on the photosensitive belt after development to uniformly electrify the surface of the photosensitive belt with exposing charge potential; and a potential-increasing electrifying unit for increasing the electrical charge potential on the surface of the photosensitive belt, which was lowered during previous developing, to a level for performing further developing using a different development solution.
Abstract:
A liquid electrophotographic image-forming apparatus is provided including an anti-wraparound device having a bushing formed on both ends of a rotary shaft of a transfer backup roller to slide thereon, a shielding member installed on the bushing and contacting the transfer belt and the cleaning blade to prevent developer removed by the cleaning blade from flowing to the sides of the transfer belt, and an elastic member installed on both sides of the transfer backup roller for elastically biasing the bushing toward the transfer belt. Therefore, a wraparound phenomenon generated on the sides of the cleaning blade and transfer belt can be prevented, thus obtaining a higher image quality.
Abstract:
A liquid developer imaging system and a method using the system for developing an image, including a cartridge for containing a developing solution; a developing container for receiving the developing solution supplied from the cartridge via a predetermined supply line; a developing roller partly submerged in the developing solution contained in the developing container, installed to be rotated facing a photosensitive object; and a metering blade for scraping off the developing solution coated on the surface of the developing roller to a predetermined thickness, is provided. According to the system, a developing supply structure can be considerably simplified because a high-density developing solution is directly used in developing an image without a process of diluting the solution, and an image can be developed to have high definition because the concentration of the developing solution coated on the developing roller is regularly controlled by a metering blade.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of fabricating carbon nanotubes using a focused ion beam (FIB). The method includes: preparing a substrate; scanning the substrate with the FIB; and growing the carbon nanotubes on the scanned substrate.
Abstract:
A developing device for a liquid electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided. The developing device may have a developing roller, which supplies ink to a photosensitive body on which an electrostatic latent image is formed and develops the electrostatic latent image. The apparatus may include an ink reservoir in which ink supplied to the developing roller is accommodated, and an ink removal unit, which removes ink remaining in the ink reservoir after a development operation is performed. The ink removal unit may comprise an ink removal member rotatably installed in the ink reservoir that exhausts ink through a through hole formed under the ink reservoir. A driving member rotates the ink removal member. An ink cartridge stores ink exhausted through the through hole.
Abstract:
A liquid electrophotographic image forming apparatus using an ink developing solution having a high concentration where a non-volatile carrier is used as a dispersion solvent includes a photosensitive body, a charge unit increasing a potential of the photosensitive body to a charge potential, an exposure unit projecting a beam onto the photosensitive body and forming a latent electrostatic image, a developing solution supply unit supplying a developing solution to the photosensitive body, the developing solution having a high concentration where a non-volatile carrier is used as a dispersion solvent, a developing unit receiving the developing solution having the high concentration to form a developing film having the high concentration and to develop the latent electrostatic image, a transfer unit contacting the photosensitive body and moving the developed image to a recording medium, and a fixing unit fixing the transferred image in the recording medium at a temperature lower than a flash point of the non-volatile carrier. By using the non-volatile developing solution having the high concentration, a smell generating due to vapor of a carrier can be prevented, and an image forming apparatus having a simple structure can be provided.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus having an image forming part to apply developer to a recording medium to form an image, the image forming apparatus including a developer transporting pipe through which developer is transported to the image forming part, a first storing part to store a first amount of the developer and to supply the developer to an upstream part of the developer transporting pipe, at least a second storing part to store at least a second amount of the developer and to supply the developer to a downstream part of the developer transporting pipe, and a transporting device, disposed along the developer transporting pipe, to transport the developer supplied by the first storing part and the second storing part to the image forming part with the upstream part of the developer transporting pipe having a different transport flow rate than the downstream part of the developer transporting pipe.
Abstract:
A liquid electrophotographic color image forming apparatus includes a main charger for charging a surface of a photoreceptor web to a predetermined charging electric potential, an optical scanning unit for scanning light onto the photoreceptor web to form an electrostatic latent image, and developing rollers for yellow, cyan, magenta and black colors, sequentially installed in a direction that the photoreceptor web circulates, for developing the electrostatic latent image using developer for each color. Further included are auxiliary chargers for cyan, magenta and black colors, installed downstream of each of the developing rollers, for additionally charging the photoreceptor web, the electric potential of which is lowered after development for each of yellow, cyan and magenta colors. In the above apparatus, when development gaps between each of the developing rollers and the photoreceptor web are respectively defined as GY, GC, GM and GK sequentially in a direction that the photoreceptor web proceeds, to restrict an increase of the intensity of an electric field at each development gap according to the additional charging, each of the developing rollers are installed to satisfy the condition that GY≦GC≦GM≦GK.
Abstract:
A liquid electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a liquid carrier depositing unit that is arranged at a forward direction of the secondary transfer roller at a paper feed path and deposits liquid carrier on a print side of a sheet of paper that is secondarily transferred.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image with liquid developer, and a method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photoconductors on which developer images having carrier rates different from each other are formed with corresponding liquid developers. An image transfer member is disposed to form transfer nips with the respective photoconductors in such a manner that the developer images of the respective photoconductors are overlappingly transferred onto the image transfer member according to a transfer order predetermined on the basis of the carrier rates thereof. The developer images from the respective photoconductors are moved to an image receiving medium. Since the developer images formed on the plurality of photoconductors are overlappingly transferred onto the image transfer member according to the predetermined transfer order, the developer images previously transferred at the prior transfer nips are substantially prevented from generating a squeezed carrier beyond a predetermined limit at the posterior transfer nips. The squeezed carrier is substantially prevented from accumulating beyond the predetermined limit at the inlet side of the posterior transfer nips when the developer images are transferred from the respective photoconductors to the image transfer member.